The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Victor Hugo

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb?

Emily Dickinson

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Benjamin Franklin

Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts.

Stephen King

There exist moments in life, separated by long intervals of time, but linked together by their inner content and by a certain singular sensation peculiar to them. Several such moments always recur to my mind together, and I feel then that it is these that have determined the chief trend of my life.

P. D. Ouspensky

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

Vin Diesel

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods

Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, ch

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Francis Bacon

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Antoine Rivarol

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Brigitte Bardot